That was actually the economists take on it. [ laughter ] but on friday miss kelly took to the airwaves to clear things up. In kicking off a light hearted segment i offered a tongue and cheek message for any kids watching saying that santa, who i joked is a real person whose race is identifiable is white. An offhand jest is now a national firestorm. Humor is something we try to bring to the show but sometime its lost on the humanless and fox news and yours truly are big targets for many people. [ laughter ] jon i guess we all owe you an apology. [ laughter ] what appeared to me to be another example of a fox news segment expressing anger and victimization over the loss of absolute power and reframing that as persecution of real america by noshts, free loaders and socialists [laughter] that is trademarked, by the way. What i thought was that was actually a jest, a jape. Im sure if we look at the original clip again in that context well find it as humorous as it was sincerely intended to
Her response to santa being a color other than white. Kids at home santa is white. Were just debating this because someone wrote about it. Jon see. [ laughter ] like most debates it started by giving you the definitive answer first. Now, unfortunately for miss kelly for fox her spram televised. Her program is televised. And people who saw the segment or read about it expressed an opinion that what she said was wrong and defensive and oddly definitive for a discussion of a fictional character and bleep ed. People thought it was like really bleep ed up. That was actually the economists take on it. [ laughter ] but on friday miss kelly took to the airwaves to clear things up. In kicking off a light hearted segment i offered a tongue and cheek message for any kids watching saying that santa, who i joked is a real person whose race is identifiable is white. An offhand jest is now a national firestorm. Humor is something we try to bring to the show but sometime its lost on the humanless and
Get back home and start packing your things avingt we are leaving this whole intolerant country aww okay, who got rid of the muslims, huh . That was all me. Ple than a simple thank you will suffice. Captioning by captionmax www. Captionmax. Com from comedy centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. [daily show theme song playing] [cheers and applause] jon welcome to the daily show. [cheers and applause] my name is jon stewart. Our guest tonight were very excited saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour will be on the show. Shes done this film wajada. Tremendous. Off the top you may recall if youve seen our program last week we had a little spirited fun with meghan kelly. Were meg yin kelly. Her response to santa being a color other than white. Kids at home santa is white. Were just debating this because someone wrote about it. Jon see. [ laughter ] like most debates it started by giving you the definitive answer first. Now, unfortunately for miss ke
Youve seen our program last week we had a little spirited fun with meghan kelly. Were meg yin kelly. Her response to santa being a color other than white. Kids at home santa is white. Were just debating this because someone wrote about it. Jon see. [ laughter ] like most debates it started by giving you the definitive answer first. Now, unfortunately for miss kelly for fox her spram televised. Her program is televised. And people who saw the segment or read about it expressed an opinion that what she said was wrong and defensive and oddly definitive for a discussion of a fictional character and bleep ed. People thought it was like really bleep ed up. That was actually the economists take on it. [ laughter ] but on friday miss kelly took to the airwaves to clear things up. In kicking off a light hearted segment i offered a tongue and cheek message for any kids watching saying that santa, who i joked is a real person whose race is identifiable is white. An offhand jest is now a national